The Shorts–The Journey Within
The Journey Within
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Earlier this fall, Chris moved away from favorite climbing haunts towards something bigger and more intimidating than giant rock walls. As he helped care for an extended family member thousands of miles from the place he had called home, he had to figure out how to take a journey very different than an annual pilgrimage to climb in Patagonia: a journey within.
You can find more of Chris Kalman’s writing on his blog, Fringe’s Folly, “for the purists, dirtbags and salty oldtimers who live climbing.”
Music: Play by The Henchman School of Shooting • Do It Again by Nada Surf • Now I Wait by Goathanger • Done with Dallas by Bradley Carter
Most music provided by Mevio’s Music Alley. Bradley Carter is a friend of the Diaries.
The Shorts–More Than Just a Camping Trip
More Than Just a Camping Trip
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You can find more photos of Otto and Riley’s trip on Otto’s photography website.
Music: Let the Right One In by Night’s Bright Colors • Original Score by Amy Stolzenbach • Underdog by Bradley Carter
Music by Night’s Bright Colors provided by Mevio’s Music Alley. Amy Stolzenbach and Bradley Carter are friends of the Diaries.
What You’re Handed
What You’re Handed
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/176798461″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=false&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”300″ height=”300″ iframe=”true” /]Regardless of how you choose to play outside, if someone gets hurt in the mountains, the first step on the checklist remains the same: “scene safety”–you make sure the thing that hurt your buddy isn’t going to hurt you too. But there’s no checklist for emotional safety when things go wrong. Today we bring you the story of a family, an accident and the repercussions they navigated for years afterwards.
Music: Live at Bazillus by Aidan Baker • Hotel Denalian by Bravo, Max! • Whatever Comes My Way by Vienna Ditto • Too Young by Runaway Dorothy • Last Chance for Love by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club • A Finer Line by Jason Tyler Burton
Music provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, Free Music Archive and Diaries‘ listener Jason Tyler Burton.
Tales of Terror Vol. 5
Tales of Terror Vol. 5
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/174637383″ params=”auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=false&show_reposts=false&visual=true” width=”300″ height=”300″ iframe=”true” /]Ghost stories. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, ghost stories have a way of seeping into your mind. And, if they’re really good, suddenly, that soft rapping on the window or the flickering lights become more ominous–like we’ve primed out minds to seek another explanation. In part, that’s the fun of ghost stories. But how do we explain those things we had no intention of seeing? Our Tales of Terror winners, Justin Gero and Melina Coogan, present tales of seeing something they really, really didn’t want to.
Music: Spider Vanish by Night’s Bright Colors • Darkness Falls by Sam Haynes • Strung Out by Dead Poets Society • Gradations by A Single VoiceThe Forest by Sam Haynes • Through the Eyes of Man by emFRIK • Healing for the Hopeless by emFRIK
Music provided by Mevio’s Music Alley.
The Shorts — Hooch
Hooch
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Today, we bring you David’s story of discovering a culture at once foreign and strangely familiar–and all within a day’s drive of the place where he grew up.
David recently returned to the Chattahoochee to create a documentary, Who Owns Water, that chronicles a tri-state water war that threatens the river and the communities that depend on it.
Music: Requiem for Radio by The Cassettes • Flat Black by Drop Top Lincoln • Plantation by Jason Shaw • Baby, Please Don’t Go by Big Bill Broonzy • Road to Godavari by Denise Casey
Music provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, Free Music Archive and Diaries’ Listener Denise Casey.
